** This project aims to bring Lab based on a DSP processor to every Engineering institute in India.

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** We intend to design a Lab course based on Hawkboard, which will give opportunity to students to try out the theoretical knowledge gained on Signal processing courses(Signal & System, Digital Signal Processing), Embedded Linux courses and Operating System courses basically for UG and PG Students.

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* '''Homepage''': TBD;

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* '''Why not on other board ?''':

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** Hawkboard is a very affordable platform offering high performance.

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** Hawkboard has Floating Point DSP and ARM9 core.

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** Institutes will want to establish their DSP, Embedded Labs based on a single platform which can be used for training on DSP, ARM, OS etc, Hawk Board can fulfill all these roles.

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* '''About our Team''': A group of Senior Undergrad and Masters Students at IIIT-Hyd, who have introduced new courses teaching AVR microcontroller to UG and PG students. Now we want to develop DSP and ARM expertise in our Institute and furthur to other Universities and Institutes.

* '''Why not on other board ?''': Speech recognition and synthesis are showcase applications for a heterogenous OMAP architecture. A DSP architecture is well suited for real-time filtering, feature extraction, and phoneme synthesis, offloading the interrupt overhead, memory bandwidth, and processor cycles from the general purpose CPU for processing of the grammar, Markov Models, and network protocols. In particular, the Hawkboard L138's C674x has floating point for wide dynamic range, the ARM 9 offers excellent energy efficient, and the built-in connectivity eliminates the need for an external Ethernet MAC and buffer.

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* '''Duration''': 6-9 months

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* '''Expected results''':

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** Short term:

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*** With a connected microphone and speaker connected to the Hawkboard, demonstrate basic voice navigation of VoiceXML pages.

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*** Document the selection and use of a Java virtual machine for OMAP L138 (needed for Sphinx 4).

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*** Provide code to the Hawkboard community demonstrating use of the DSP for real-time voice processing and efficient inter-processor communication.

* '''Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How ''': Besides the code development, when the project is ready I will submit a proposal to teach a session at ESC.

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* '''One thing you like about this platform or initiative''': As with BeagleBoard, making a low-cost development board with extensive community support is a direct acknowledgment that design engineers and hobbyists are the path to adoption, not expensive (often many hundreds of dollars) third-party development kits. This is consistent with TI's commitment towards open source tools, already demonstrated with support for the Gnu toolchain and CCS4's recent move to Eclipse.

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==== Mobile Assistive In-campus Vehicle ====

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* '''Title''' : Mobile Assistve In-campus vehicle

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* '''Short project description''': The purpose of this project is the design of a fully autonomous moving vehicle intended for capable of smart moving and helping the Physically challenged people to move freely to concern place easier and safer. This design focuses mainly on the movement of the Physically challenged person freely from one place to the desired designation place without any physical work of the handicapped person. With the help of the navigation system they can choose the desired place where they want to go and move to the place without operating the vehicle and reach the place safer. It is fully autonomous vehicle with comfort and safe travel is ensured. The complete control of the vehicle is via the ARM & DSP based board. To maintain constant speed, a sixth light sensor detects wheel rotation. The PWM signal to the motor is adjusted to maintain the desired speed through a digital feedback algorithm, obtaining data from the wheel. The navigations can be done by using touch screen and voice recognition method. A fully digitalized campus map utilized to track the destinations.

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'''Case study''': For this project we have taken the case study of MIT campus (Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai) where there totally 25 Physically challenged people(include blind people) are present all over the Departments. All the departments are located at different places. If they want to reach their departments, then they need some provision to go there from the main gate or by other's support. Classes and Labs are also available in different places. Its difficult to move from one place to another for them. So in-order to reduce their energy and to help a free movement this proposed vehicle is a good one for the movement.

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* '''Homepage''': Not yet designed

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* '''Why not on other board ?''': A low cost, ARM+DSP core support for DSP, Voice recognition, floating point support and wide varieties of external peripherals supports. Also the Open source platform provides opportunity to improve software & hardware for Assisitive technologies to help Physically challenged people in their day by day life.

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* '''Duration''': 6 months

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* '''Expected results''':

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*** The final application will be released as a Open Source.

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*** A Assistive technology application to help the physically challenged people in the academic area initially.

*** Planing to approach Academic institutions, Railways departments, Airport authorities,.etc to enable this Assistive technology in those areas. Hardware/Software supports will be shared with Hawkboard.org, if the above approach will be finished successfully.

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* '''One thing you like about this platform or initiative''': Few experience with BB, I expect the same community support from Hawkboard. Students, Hobbyist, learners and hackers can easily learn ARM,DSP and many other relevant technologies. Bcoz of the low cost and good community support. It is also perfectly suitable for many industries oriented Embedded applications.

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==== TomaHAWK ====

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* '''Title''' : TomaHAWK

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* '''Short project description''':

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*** The purpose of this project is to exploit the versatile nature of the OMAP L 138 and construct a robot around the Hawkboard.

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*** Our main intention of building this bot is to demonstrate and encourage undergrad students in our college and various other colleges to attempt projects on such state of the art boards and spread the word amongst peers.

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* '''Homepage''': Yet to be created

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* '''Why not on other board ?''':

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*** Hawkboard is the ideal board for any electronics and robotics enthusiasts. The floating point C674x processor combined with the ARM9 make it all the more easy to give the bot superior processing power and we intend to develop voice command recognition , image processing for object recognition wireless control, sensor interfacing and probably even implement some neural network based learning into the bot. The peripherals needed are already built on to the board making development all the more simpler. I am quite confident the hawkboard will definitely make passionate undergrads go gaga over it!

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* '''Duration''': 5 months

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* '''Expected results''':

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*** '''near future''':

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*** Built a Rudimentary bot equipped with steppers, an arm for clasping, ultrasound range sensors, wireless PC based control interface.

*** By establishing a community in our college SJCE,Mysore and will have a workshop and a contest in our annual national level technical fest Cyberia by IEEE

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*** Spread the word among the other colleges in and around our city and hopefully contribute on the global level.

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* '''One thing you like about this platform or initiative''':

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*** Open platform and a well documented community

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*** Great potential in all fields

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*** Perfectly suited for the fledglings wanting to try something State of the Art.

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*** Whats not to like!

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==== HAPLET ====

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* '''Title''' : HAPLET

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* '''Short project description''':

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*** We are aiming to build a tablet pc with the hawkboard at its heart and a whole new range of peripherals.we are planning to replace the traditional lcd screen with a projector, thereby allowing the user to use any surface near him as a screen.Also the mouse interface is to be replaced by an ingenious haptic accelerometer device connected to your fingers thereby allowing your fingers to act as a mouse.a virtual keyboard is also to be provided.Haptic control of cameras with a whole range of other interfaces will make the tablet pc experience a lot more cool.

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*** this is a project aimed at exploring and enhancing the portability of such a platform.

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* '''Homepage''': Yet to be created

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* '''Why not on other board ?''':

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*** hawkboard with its arm9 core and floating point dsp will provide all the computational support.

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*** the interfaces on the board will enable easier implementation of the project.

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*** its affordable.

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* '''Duration''': 5-6 months

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* '''Expected results''':

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*** all the required basic interfacings(projector,accelerometer,camera) to be completed

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*** the short term goal would be to setup the basic makings of a haptic tablet pc

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*** long term goal would be to increase the range of haptic interfaces

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* '''Contact''': pkp.124@gmail.com

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* '''Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How''' :

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*** will be an active member of the hawkboard community

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*** will provide the encouragement and support to my friends and others in our college to make use of such a versatile board.

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* '''One thing you like about this platform or initiative''':

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*** its arm9 core and dsp processor.

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*** open source initiative

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*** a great hobbyist's and a technician's portable board.

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==== Video recording ====

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* '''Title''' : Video recording

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* '''Short project description''':

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** We are planning to develop a portable camera recording system.

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** This application will be help by the powerful dsp of the OMAP138 for audio/video compression.

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** This system could be used for sports with an helmet camera, or for video monitoring.

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** This system could also be used to output the previously recorded video on a monitor.

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* '''Homepage''': Will be created when the project will start.

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* '''Why not on other board ?''':

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** The dsp allow the possibility to do an efficient video/audio compression and decompression.

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** The board is small, so it can be easily used in an embedded camera system.

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** The price is very small.

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** The board has ethernet connection usefull for a video monitoring system.

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* '''Duration''': 6 months

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* '''Expected results''':

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** Efficient video encoding taking advantage of the dsp

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** A complete recording system: helmet camera will be our first application

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** Then, after adding ethernet communication: a video monitoring system able to send data over internet

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* '''Contact''': f.sly.cam@gmail.com

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* '''Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How''' :

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** will publish all our work: sources, tutorial, tips ...

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** will create a website descrybing the project, and where people will be able to ask questions on the hawkboard

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* '''One thing you like about this platform or initiative''':

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** A great platform for a such small price that will help hobbyist to create powerfull toys!

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*'''Title''' : Autonomous Bioacoustic Monitoring System

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*'''Short project description''':

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** The system will capture and in some cases recognises the calls of frogs, birds & another animals.

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** It will be deployed solar-powered in remote areas for long-term unatended monitoring.

**reason 2 : DSP with prospect of a community supplying open source code for it

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**reason 3 : low power for solar operation

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*'''Duration''': 12 months

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*'''Expected results:'''

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**output : FFT library for DSP

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**output : complex open source application for Hawkboard

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**output : system demand should test some aspects hardware/kernel

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*'''Contact''': andrewt@cse.unsw.edu.au

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*'''Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How ''':

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**1. All code & schematics will be open sources

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**2. Try to contribute to mailing lists

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*'''One thing you like about this platform or initiative''':

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** Prospect of vibrant community behind the hardware so fixes/workarounds likely when problems are met

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==== Internet Portable Media Streaming Device ====

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* '''Title''' : Media Hawk

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*'''Short project description''':

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** An ultra small media streaming device to stream audio/video over Ethernet

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** Capable of streaming multiple video source on the same link

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** Talk to a server over internet

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** In-built ability to store media locally in a non portable configuration either through USB or SATA connection

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** LCD touch screen user interface to provide control.

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*'''Homepage''': http://hawk.sandengine.com (coming up soon)

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* '''Why not on other board ?''':

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**1. Hawkboard has DSP core, A/V, EMAC, SATA and USB which makes it ideal for these kind of gadgets

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**2. It will be a low power and inexpensive to build a device for consumer market

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*'''Duration''':

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** 6 to 9 months

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*'''Expected results:''':

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** A ready to use and easy to carry device in a setup where a video feed can be streamed on a network

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** Add software around this device to make it more usable in a wide consumer segment

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*'''Contact:''': rizwan@sandengine.com

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*'''Will you support hawkboard.org initiative? How?''':

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** We will provide constant feed on our findings and development to hawkboard.org

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** This product will leverage the work done by others on different interfaces

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** Our plan to go for a consumer electronics market will give a big boost to the hawkboard and OMAP processor line.

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*'''One thing you like about this platform or initiative:''':

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** This platform provides a very price-performance ratio.

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** The SATA interface is a very powerful feature which differentiate it from others at this price level.

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==== Development and proof of concept of using HawkBoard for HiFi audio signal processing ====

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* '''Title''' : Hifi Audio Signal Processing

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* '''Short project description''':

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**The project will prove the HawkBoards ability to do signal processing on audio material

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***Main concern for many enthusiasts is the difficulty of doing custom signal processing that still retain good fidelity in terms of noise and harmonic distortion. By proving the concept and measuring the quality of processing the audio community will benefit and quickly join the HawkBoard community.

Introduction

Hawkboard.org is a Open Community Portal for OMAP L 138 ( ARM 9 and C674x Floating Point DSP) Applications

What is hawkboard ?

A OMAP L 138 based Open Platform designed by a small team of engineers @ Innovate Solutions

What is Early Adopter Program ?

Honestly, this is an exercise to educate the community on OMAP L 138 offerings and technology

Who can participate ?

Passionate Open Community members, Technologists interested in leveraging the OMAP L 138 technology and developing innovative applications, Team members who would want to drive and educate the community on the correct or right usage of the platform.

Last day for submissions?

November 30th 2009

When will I receive the board if selected?

By Dec 15th 2009

What is the selection Criteria ?

A group of Community members will be identified as Judges to review the proposals. The judges will choose the early adopters

What after winning a board ?

The Board is all yours, we look forward to the execution of your proposed solution.

Should the solution be open ?

Yes, after or while execution of the project you are requested to give the details to make this a successful open source program

Proposals

<below is a template / example, please keep the heading and use the same for your proposals>

<example starts>

Linux Driver Development for HawkBoard Peripherals

Title : Driver Development

Short project description:

The project will add the Linux driver support, following are the drivers I will be interested in developing and maintaining

Hawk Medical Kit

HMK is a low cost portable diagnostic kit for use by Medical community esp for rural health care and on mobile health care units. It shall provide interfaces for open/commercial portable ultrasound probes, open or commercial 12-lead ECG probes, Oxygen Saturation probes. It could be extended to be used for tele-healthcare/tele-radiology and other cardio monitoring applications.

Homepage: (not in place, yet)

Why not on other board ?:

reason 1 Hawkboard is ideal as it provides a floating point DSP for signal processing and ARM9 for control & UI for this device

HAWKEYE Software Defined Radio

The system will consist of a wideband data capture HW frontend, digital demodulation of a band of RF spectrum.

Hawkboard will provide baseband processing, DSP capabilities to process spectrum and generate a graphical spectrum display of a band of interest.

Parallel decode as many individual channels as possible, storing spectrum history and decoded channels to a local disk via SATA interface.

User interface to select frequency band, channels of interest etc...

Homepage: TBD

Why not on other board ?:

reason 1 : Hawkboard provides a unique combination of easy to program ARM 9 for user interface and I/O, high performance DSP for processing, SATA interface for storage and Ethernet/USB for interfacing.

reason 2 : Low cost board with all required features on a small in expensive board, multiple boards will be required to cover a large bandwidth.

ASoC drivers will be implemented and submitted to davinci mailing list for kernel.org submissions.

Contact: sudhanshu.saxena[at]gmail[.]com

Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How :

By creating wiki's of my understanding

By being on mailing lists and IRC and try to answer the questions

One thing you like about this platform or initiative:

Open Platform

Robotics video plus API

Title: Robotics video plus API

Short project description:

The hobbyist robotics community often use µc that are not really powerfull because the calculations in robots can (often) be achieved by simple 8bits µc and because more powerful µc are often too expensives or more dificult to use.The principal device that need more calculus power is the camera, and actually there is not so much devices for hobbyists that are able to deal with camera.Hawkboard has several advantages for this purpose: calculus power (arm9+DSP), video input, complete well known OS (Linux), small price, GPIO + well known buses, small size.

Our principal goal is to provide a well documented example of how to use a camera with hawkboard (with using OpenCV library).

Our secondary goal is to provide examples of how to interface Hawboard with well known robotics actuator or sensors.

Our dead line is driven by the participation of our robot to an european robotic contest! (This is the 7th year we participate...)

A video use case using the DSP to get all the benefits of the platform

An api or/and examples of how to use the principal devices necessary for robotics (Video In, PWM, UART, SPI, I2C, GPIO, ethernet ...)

One thing you like about this platform or initiative:

A cheap platform for robotics with easy acces to video and currents IO

Pro Audio Digital Mixer

Title : ProAudio Digital Mixer

Short project description:

This is a ProAudio Digital Mixer, which leverages the high end Audio Signal Processing capabilities of the C674x DSP inside, while using the ARM core to perform OS tasks, User Interface, Communications and Storage.

Homepage: Not yet created.

Why not on other board ?:

No other catalog processor integrates a floating point DSP as well as high performance ARM core.

Hawkboard is supported by the community.

Already taking part on BeagleBoard audio related projects, so this cross-processor effort will be more fruitful and will encourage others to take part.

Duration: 6 months

Expected results:

Implementation of Audio Digital Processing algorithms on the DSP core.

Synchronization of ARM and DSP to get the ARM effectively controlling the DSP execution (algorithm parameters)

Wiki page to describe the entire development method here ...

Contact: jaime[dot]aranguren[at]ieee[.]org

Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How :

By creating wiki's of my understanding

By being on mailing lists and IRC and try to answer the questions

One thing you like about this platform or initiative:

Open Platform

Floating point DSP + ARM core on the same chip... Amazing!!!

It is community based

James

Title: James

Short project description: James aims to be a home server for data and multimedia, including the acquisition of content, recording of video (mythtv backend) and audio playback. It started as a project on beagleboard but got stalled due to USB issues. This project will leverage upon the results of the BeagleBoard work and will also attempt to maximize reuse of existing good software.

Hawkboard is probably the lowest cost solution for this (which is interesting because it is affordable to have a 2nd board as e.g. mythtv backend)

This work was started on Beagleboard, but there were too many problems with USB. Also on Beagle, USB would probably become a bottleneck (with both video input (for mythtv), network and mass storage being on the same bus). As Hawkboard has sata and ethernet on board I expect way less issues

An attempt was also done with sheevaplug. Technically this one is also interesting but lacks SATA and audio out.

Duration: undefined. The project will deliver functionality in increments. See also the expected results.

Expected results:

Documentation on how to get everything working

up to date recipes for the functionality in openembedded

perhaps an image with all the software (this depends on availability of a place to store the image); alternately there may be a composite package including all the software.

Functionwise the expected results are:

support for hawkboard in OpenEmbedded (expected time to realise: < 1 wk)

Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How : By actively contributing on the mailing list and on irc

One thing you like about this platform or initiative: The tremendous amount of functionality and interfaces for such a low price.

Hawkdroid

Title: Hawkdroid

Short project description: Porting Android to Hawkboard. This will enable host of applications from Android platform to run on hawkboard.

Homepage: Yet to setup

Why not on other board ?:

Chipest Open Platform with lot of peripherals available to run Android.

Strong community support

Duration: 2 months

Expected results:

Binaries which will demonstrate Android platform running on Hawkboard

Wiki page of steps to follow

Source code of ported Android platform

Contact: rupeshgujare[at]gmail[.]com

Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How :

By creating wiki's of my understanding

By being on mailing lists and try to answer the questions

One thing you like about this platform or initiative:

Very Chip Open Platform with lot of peripheral support

Driver Enhancement : Video

Title: Driver Enhancement

Short project description:

I am planing to work on Video In/Out & I2C driver. Besides this, I am interested in supporting some interesting peripherals over USB too. I am planing to generate faster user interface layer by using various possible hardware feature.

Why not on other board ?: I have fairly good understanding of Davinci architecture, The Hawkboard kernel support is integrated in davinci kernel tree.

Duration: Will start as soon as I will get access to board and keep updating in all related mailing list.

Expected results: Support for more featured drivers with better throughput.

Contact: irc : virals email: viralsachde at gmail dot com

Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How :

Providing my observation on kernel on mailing list / irc / wiki

Will try to integrate more peripheral support in driver

Probably by providing support to local community ( at Bangalore, India) in personal or during events.

One thing you like about this platform or initiative:

Use of OMAP L13# series processor

Low-power desktop replacement

Title: Low-power desktop replacement

Short project description: Combined with Citrix application server, the hawkboard based computer can replace regular desktops which consume a lot of energy. This not only saves electricity, but also offers savings on cooling and less noise in an office environment. The client only needs to run the free citrix client software.

Homepage: None yet

Why not on other board ?: Power consumption, lack of ethernet connectivity and size.

Duration: Hoping to have a working proof-of-concept for clients in the next few months

Expected results: Our main market will be western Europe, where we expect to install a few hundred devices during 2010. Installations will be combined with application hosting and remote desktop maintainance services.

Contact: nick@hostlogic.nl

Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How : Testing early devices and if usable we will develop a minimal kernel and desktop install image.

One thing you like about this platform or initiative: Open-source, connectivity on the board (compared to beagleboard) and above all low power consumption.

DAGO

Title: DAGO

Short project description: DAGO (Digital Audio visual and Gesture Organism) is a portable natural input processing system initially developed for controlling IP based devices. Input will range from any form of human communication means e.g. speech, visual gesture, etc.

Open CourseWare Based on Hawk Board

This project aims to bring Lab based on a DSP processor to every Engineering institute in India.

We intend to design a Lab course based on Hawkboard, which will give opportunity to students to try out the theoretical knowledge gained on Signal processing courses(Signal & System, Digital Signal Processing), Embedded Linux courses and Operating System courses basically for UG and PG Students.

Homepage: TBD;

Why not on other board ?:

Hawkboard is a very affordable platform offering high performance.

Hawkboard has Floating Point DSP and ARM9 core.

Institutes will want to establish their DSP, Embedded Labs based on a single platform which can be used for training on DSP, ARM, OS etc, Hawk Board can fulfill all these roles.

About our Team: A group of Senior Undergrad and Masters Students at IIIT-Hyd, who have introduced new courses teaching AVR microcontroller to UG and PG students. Now we want to develop DSP and ARM expertise in our Institute and furthur to other Universities and Institutes.

Introduce these Experiments as a part of relevant Courses at IIIT-Hyderabad.

Contact: shubham_g at students dot iiit dot ac dot in

Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How :

Open Sourcing the Course ware and promoting it in different institutes

Providing Online Support to Queries and problems.

One thing you like about this platform or initiative:

Initiated in India

Open Source

Very Affordable to Hobbyists

Voice Browser

Title : Voice Browser

Short project description: Create a VoiceXML-compatible Voice Browser on the Hawkboard by integrating OpenVXI, Sphinx 4, and Festvox from Carnegie Mellon University's Open Source Speech Software, algorithms from TI's own application notes, and other components.

Why not on other board ?: Speech recognition and synthesis are showcase applications for a heterogenous OMAP architecture. A DSP architecture is well suited for real-time filtering, feature extraction, and phoneme synthesis, offloading the interrupt overhead, memory bandwidth, and processor cycles from the general purpose CPU for processing of the grammar, Markov Models, and network protocols. In particular, the Hawkboard L138's C674x has floating point for wide dynamic range, the ARM 9 offers excellent energy efficient, and the built-in connectivity eliminates the need for an external Ethernet MAC and buffer.

Duration: 6-9 months

Expected results:

Short term:

With a connected microphone and speaker connected to the Hawkboard, demonstrate basic voice navigation of VoiceXML pages.

Document the selection and use of a Java virtual machine for OMAP L138 (needed for Sphinx 4).

Provide code to the Hawkboard community demonstrating use of the DSP for real-time voice processing and efficient inter-processor communication.

Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How : Besides the code development, when the project is ready I will submit a proposal to teach a session at ESC.

One thing you like about this platform or initiative: As with BeagleBoard, making a low-cost development board with extensive community support is a direct acknowledgment that design engineers and hobbyists are the path to adoption, not expensive (often many hundreds of dollars) third-party development kits. This is consistent with TI's commitment towards open source tools, already demonstrated with support for the Gnu toolchain and CCS4's recent move to Eclipse.

Mobile Assistive In-campus Vehicle

Title : Mobile Assistve In-campus vehicle

Short project description: The purpose of this project is the design of a fully autonomous moving vehicle intended for capable of smart moving and helping the Physically challenged people to move freely to concern place easier and safer. This design focuses mainly on the movement of the Physically challenged person freely from one place to the desired designation place without any physical work of the handicapped person. With the help of the navigation system they can choose the desired place where they want to go and move to the place without operating the vehicle and reach the place safer. It is fully autonomous vehicle with comfort and safe travel is ensured. The complete control of the vehicle is via the ARM & DSP based board. To maintain constant speed, a sixth light sensor detects wheel rotation. The PWM signal to the motor is adjusted to maintain the desired speed through a digital feedback algorithm, obtaining data from the wheel. The navigations can be done by using touch screen and voice recognition method. A fully digitalized campus map utilized to track the destinations.

Case study: For this project we have taken the case study of MIT campus (Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai) where there totally 25 Physically challenged people(include blind people) are present all over the Departments. All the departments are located at different places. If they want to reach their departments, then they need some provision to go there from the main gate or by other's support. Classes and Labs are also available in different places. Its difficult to move from one place to another for them. So in-order to reduce their energy and to help a free movement this proposed vehicle is a good one for the movement.

Homepage: Not yet designed

Why not on other board ?: A low cost, ARM+DSP core support for DSP, Voice recognition, floating point support and wide varieties of external peripherals supports. Also the Open source platform provides opportunity to improve software & hardware for Assisitive technologies to help Physically challenged people in their day by day life.

Duration: 6 months

Expected results:

The final application will be released as a Open Source.

A Assistive technology application to help the physically challenged people in the academic area initially.

Planing to approach Academic institutions, Railways departments, Airport authorities,.etc to enable this Assistive technology in those areas. Hardware/Software supports will be shared with Hawkboard.org, if the above approach will be finished successfully.

One thing you like about this platform or initiative: Few experience with BB, I expect the same community support from Hawkboard. Students, Hobbyist, learners and hackers can easily learn ARM,DSP and many other relevant technologies. Bcoz of the low cost and good community support. It is also perfectly suitable for many industries oriented Embedded applications.

TomaHAWK

Title : TomaHAWK

Short project description:

The purpose of this project is to exploit the versatile nature of the OMAP L 138 and construct a robot around the Hawkboard.

Our main intention of building this bot is to demonstrate and encourage undergrad students in our college and various other colleges to attempt projects on such state of the art boards and spread the word amongst peers.

Homepage: Yet to be created

Why not on other board ?:

Hawkboard is the ideal board for any electronics and robotics enthusiasts. The floating point C674x processor combined with the ARM9 make it all the more easy to give the bot superior processing power and we intend to develop voice command recognition , image processing for object recognition wireless control, sensor interfacing and probably even implement some neural network based learning into the bot. The peripherals needed are already built on to the board making development all the more simpler. I am quite confident the hawkboard will definitely make passionate undergrads go gaga over it!

Duration: 5 months

Expected results:

near future:

Built a Rudimentary bot equipped with steppers, an arm for clasping, ultrasound range sensors, wireless PC based control interface.

By establishing a community in our college SJCE,Mysore and will have a workshop and a contest in our annual national level technical fest Cyberia by IEEE

Spread the word among the other colleges in and around our city and hopefully contribute on the global level.

One thing you like about this platform or initiative:

Open platform and a well documented community

Great potential in all fields

Perfectly suited for the fledglings wanting to try something State of the Art.

Whats not to like!

HAPLET

Title : HAPLET

Short project description:

We are aiming to build a tablet pc with the hawkboard at its heart and a whole new range of peripherals.we are planning to replace the traditional lcd screen with a projector, thereby allowing the user to use any surface near him as a screen.Also the mouse interface is to be replaced by an ingenious haptic accelerometer device connected to your fingers thereby allowing your fingers to act as a mouse.a virtual keyboard is also to be provided.Haptic control of cameras with a whole range of other interfaces will make the tablet pc experience a lot more cool.

this is a project aimed at exploring and enhancing the portability of such a platform.

Homepage: Yet to be created

Why not on other board ?:

hawkboard with its arm9 core and floating point dsp will provide all the computational support.

the interfaces on the board will enable easier implementation of the project.

its affordable.

Duration: 5-6 months

Expected results:

all the required basic interfacings(projector,accelerometer,camera) to be completed

the short term goal would be to setup the basic makings of a haptic tablet pc

long term goal would be to increase the range of haptic interfaces

Contact: pkp.124@gmail.com

Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How :

will be an active member of the hawkboard community

will provide the encouragement and support to my friends and others in our college to make use of such a versatile board.

One thing you like about this platform or initiative:

its arm9 core and dsp processor.

open source initiative

a great hobbyist's and a technician's portable board.

Video recording

Title : Video recording

Short project description:

We are planning to develop a portable camera recording system.

This application will be help by the powerful dsp of the OMAP138 for audio/video compression.

This system could be used for sports with an helmet camera, or for video monitoring.

This system could also be used to output the previously recorded video on a monitor.

Homepage: Will be created when the project will start.

Why not on other board ?:

The dsp allow the possibility to do an efficient video/audio compression and decompression.

The board is small, so it can be easily used in an embedded camera system.

The price is very small.

The board has ethernet connection usefull for a video monitoring system.

Duration: 6 months

Expected results:

Efficient video encoding taking advantage of the dsp

A complete recording system: helmet camera will be our first application

Then, after adding ethernet communication: a video monitoring system able to send data over internet

Contact: f.sly.cam@gmail.com

Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How :

will publish all our work: sources, tutorial, tips ...

will create a website descrybing the project, and where people will be able to ask questions on the hawkboard

One thing you like about this platform or initiative:

A great platform for a such small price that will help hobbyist to create powerfull toys!

Title : Autonomous Bioacoustic Monitoring System

Short project description:

The system will capture and in some cases recognises the calls of frogs, birds & another animals.

It will be deployed solar-powered in remote areas for long-term unatended monitoring.

1. Hawkboard has DSP core, A/V, EMAC, SATA and USB which makes it ideal for these kind of gadgets

2. It will be a low power and inexpensive to build a device for consumer market

Duration:

6 to 9 months

Expected results::

A ready to use and easy to carry device in a setup where a video feed can be streamed on a network

Add software around this device to make it more usable in a wide consumer segment

Contact:: rizwan@sandengine.com

Will you support hawkboard.org initiative? How?:

We will provide constant feed on our findings and development to hawkboard.org

This product will leverage the work done by others on different interfaces

Our plan to go for a consumer electronics market will give a big boost to the hawkboard and OMAP processor line.

One thing you like about this platform or initiative::

This platform provides a very price-performance ratio.

The SATA interface is a very powerful feature which differentiate it from others at this price level.

Development and proof of concept of using HawkBoard for HiFi audio signal processing

Title : Hifi Audio Signal Processing

Short project description:

The project will prove the HawkBoards ability to do signal processing on audio material

Main concern for many enthusiasts is the difficulty of doing custom signal processing that still retain good fidelity in terms of noise and harmonic distortion. By proving the concept and measuring the quality of processing the audio community will benefit and quickly join the HawkBoard community.

Hawkboard has a floating point DSP which makes it perfect for medium bandwidth processing

Hawkboard is a open community platform

My contributions will be leveraged by global open community

Duration: 3-6 months

Expected results:

A simple framework that can be used to prove the performance on audio signals

Wiki page to describe the entire development method here ...

Contact: Gaston.DSP[at]gmail[.]com

Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How :

By creating wiki's of my understanding

By being on mailing lists and IRC and try to answer the questions

One thing you like about this platform or initiative:

Cheap Open Platform with very high return on small effort

GPS Navigation & Multimedia Device

Title : HawkMutiNav

Short project description:

This Device will will be used as GPS Navigation & Multimedia device in Vehicles.

1.GPS Nav:-
With Limited Maps available for India or Non-US/Non-European Countries ,Data from Google Maps could be
offlined using Gmapcather or similar software.
Then integrating with NMEA GPS Devices (Holux or soemthing similar),with gpsd it could provide a low cost ,
yet fully functional GPS location device.Integrating further with GPSdrive ,it could enable a GPS Navigation
too.